In the pages of the magazine Sight & Sound, Quentin Tarantino recently spoke about the famous French director François Truffaut, notably famous for having signed “Les 400 Coups” and “Jules et Jim”.
Like stuntman Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt in his latest film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywoodit would seem that Quentin Tarantino does not have much esteem for François Truffaut, emblematic figure of the French New Wave, notably famous for having signed Les 400 Coups, Jules et Jim or Le Dernier métro.
Indeed, interviewed in the magazine Sight&Sound to talk about his new podcast, QT recently delivered a clear-cut opinion on the work of the French filmmaker:
“Chabrol’s thrillers are much better than the terrible Hitchcock-style Truffaut films, which I find simply horrible”he said.
“Anyway, I’m not that much of a Truffaut fan. There are a few exceptions, including ‘The Story of Adele H’. But generally speaking, I feel the same with Truffaut as I do with Ed Wood. I think he’s really passionate, but he’s a clumsy amateur.”
Words that will undoubtedly make more than one jump, and which suggest that the director of Pulp Fiction would rather be from the school of Jean-Luc Godard, another pillar of the New Wave whose title of the film Bande à Part has moreover inspired the production house of Tarantino, A Band Apart.
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